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ingerlisa 's review for:
The Great Godden
by Meg Rosoff
Well we have our first 1 star book of 2022... (probably spoilers ahead)
This book was terrible. It was already unenjoyable and I was thinking a it would just be a 2 star and then I read that twist.... I mean... wtf.
This read really young but at the same time would overly sexualise these children in the book, and then a 19 year old boy (Kit) had a relationship with a 16 year old girl. Which I thought was weird but who knows...I mean maybe I'm the weird one.
Then I read this:
'"He was "hanging around" with the daughter?"
"yes."
"well why not. Good-looking American boy, beautiful Italian girl, it's a pretty obvious recipe for intrigue.
"she was twelve. What I'm trying to tell you is that he's a wrecker"
No Hugo I think the word you are looking for is predator. He is a predator.
When I tell you I threw the book...
If this didn't have like 30 pages left I would have thrown the book out the window and that would be the end of it. But no I continued. And it GeTS WoRSe...
Kit is then found to be having an affair with a 30 year old man who is supposed to be getting married in the next week, who happens to be in the same family who he is already "hanging around" with the 16 year old and also the narrator of the book who we don't even know their name or age.
This book was terrible. It was already unenjoyable and I was thinking a it would just be a 2 star and then I read that twist.... I mean... wtf.
This read really young but at the same time would overly sexualise these children in the book, and then a 19 year old boy (Kit) had a relationship with a 16 year old girl. Which I thought was weird but who knows...I mean maybe I'm the weird one.
Then I read this:
'"He was "hanging around" with the daughter?"
"yes."
"well why not. Good-looking American boy, beautiful Italian girl, it's a pretty obvious recipe for intrigue.
"she was twelve. What I'm trying to tell you is that he's a wrecker"
No Hugo I think the word you are looking for is predator. He is a predator.
When I tell you I threw the book...
If this didn't have like 30 pages left I would have thrown the book out the window and that would be the end of it. But no I continued. And it GeTS WoRSe...
Kit is then found to be having an affair with a 30 year old man who is supposed to be getting married in the next week, who happens to be in the same family who he is already "hanging around" with the 16 year old and also the narrator of the book who we don't even know their name or age.